Rail-joint.



N as" 601. PATENTED MAR. 31 1908.

O W, D. WILLIAMS.

RAIL JOINT..

LIUATIION TILED JULY 31. 1907.

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No. 883,601. PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908.

W. D. WILLIAMS.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION ITILED JULY 31.1907.

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RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented arms 31, 1908.

Applieatlon flled m a1, 1907. semi 1m m.

To (all whom it may concern: I p Be itknown that I, WILLIS D. WILLIAMS,a citizen of the United States of America, residin at Kirkland, in thecounty of Yavar Territory of- Arizona, have invented new andusefulImprovements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to improvements in railjointsand is animprovement on the boltless. rail chat for which Letters Patent of theUnited tates, No. 765,535, were grantedito {me July 19, 1904, the objectof my present improvements being to provide means to allow the rail endsto move slightly in-a vertical direction under the stress of a passing'triiinso as to yield somewhat under such stress and to spring ucp againafter the train has. ssed an in so oing cause the rails to 'yiel ontheir inner sides to the pressure of the passing train and tomoreeffectually lock thepresser block a t the back hereinafter more ydescribed.

A further object ofthe invention is to con stop, as

struct the base plate with de ending "flanges 5 tobear againstthe sidesoft e ties and lock the base plate against movement on the ties. Afiurther object of the-invention is to provide loeking keys forinsertion in alining opemngs in the meeting ends of the rails and y, 3in the base plate and its brace to prevent end:

wise movement of the rails on the base. plate. With the above andotherobjects in view theninvention consists in the construction,

- combination and arrangement of devices v hereinafter described andclaimed.

' In the accompanying 'drawings, Figure 1 is aside elevation of a railjoint constructed in accordance with my invention- Fig. 2 is partly atop plan view of the same and partly a horizontal section on a planeintersecting the webs of the rails at a point just below theheadsthereof. Fig. 3 is an end elevation, the. railbeing shown intransverse section.

4 is a. trai'isvers'e sectional view on the a 'rplaneindicated by theline o-o of Fig. 1 bet'ween the meeting ends of the rails, Fig. 5 'isjasimilar view onthe lane indicated b the ,liiie b-b of Fig: 1'.- i 6 isalongitudi- 'nal sectional view through 51c base plate, one 511' of therail ends being shown in elevation and the other being omitt d.

The rails 1 are oft e usual construction, .each ha base flanges, avertical web and ahead. e end portions of the rails are placed on thebase plate 2. Such base plate -1s provided on its underside withdependat-one side.

prevent such base p ate from moving longs tudinally onsuch cross ties.The base late is provided in opposite sides with note es 4 for thereception of spikes employed'to'secure the base plate on the ties. Onthe inner side of the base plate, that is to say, on the side thereofcorresponding to the" inner sides of the rails, is, a brace 5 whichisformed 'integrally therewith and'shaped on its inner face to corresend with the side contour of the rails, as s own in Figs.'3, 4 and5, soasto form an efiicient su 'ort for the rail exids'ym The said? race aninclined outer face 6 provided with recesses 7,8, the recess 7 being atthe central ortion of'such. brace and: the recesses 8 at t e endsthereof, therebyforrning webs 9 at theendsbf such 7 5 The upper side ofthe brace is hollowed slightly, that'is to say, the ends of such braceare slightly-higher than the central portion thereof to form a space'lO'between the upper side of such brace and the under- 3 sides ofthe'heads of' the rails on the nine! sides of the rails to enable therail ends to be on the sli htl a ular faces in the 'ur g y hoifffw sideof the base plate formed by the therein, which angular faces. resent0ppositely inclined planes enga ed y the lowersides of the rail endswhen t e latter are depressedand operate to sofirmly bind the railson'the base plate as to prevent longitilidinal movement either 'ofthe-rails or base ate, p The base plate is provided on'the side 0ppositethe brace 5 with a back stop. flange 13 which presents an inclined face14 opfivosite the outer sides of the rails. Such'b'ac stop is hollowedor recessed in its outer side, as at' r05 15, to save material andeffect a corresponding economy in the cost of the manufacture of thebase and to also lessen the weight thereof; and said backstop isprovided at suitable distances from its ends with open 110 ings16.

v I A presser block 17 has its outerface set at a slightly inclinedangle with respect to a vertical lane to correspond with the inclinationof t e inner face of the back stop and bear againr" the same and itsinner face shaped to conform to the adjacent and contacting outer sidesof the rail ends, the said presser block bearing on the base flanges onthe outer sides of the rail ends and the outer sides of the heads of therail ends bearing on said presser block and wedging the latter in placebetween the back sto and the outer sides of the rails so that sa1dpresser block coacts with the back sto and the brace 5 to effectuallylock the rails etween them. The said presser block is provided near itsends with outwardly extending arms 18 which enter the openings 16 in theback stop and coact with the end walls of such openings to,

effectually lock such presser block against longitudinal movement. Thesaid arms are recessed in their upper sides, as at 19, to chea en theconstruction and reduce the weiglit of such presser block. It will beobserved by reference "to Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawing that when theends of the rails are depressed by the weight of the assing train sothat the rail ends are cause to close the spaces 10 and 12 the rails arecaused to tilt or incline slightly towards each other and thereby moreeffectually exert wed e action on the presser block and lock the atterin place.

To prevent the possibility of endwise movement of the rai s the ends ofthe latter are recessed on their'inner sides, and the base a plate andits brace 5 are provided with a vertical 0 ening to register with suchrecesses in t e ends of the rails and receive the key 20 which has alaterally extending head 21' at its upper side to bear on the brace, andthe lower end of which extends below the lower side of the baseplate andis provided with an opening through-Which extends a transverse wedge key22 which locks such rail-locking ke 20 in place.

The base plate is slightly thicker at its outer side than at its innerside, as indicated in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, the lower side of the baseplate being slightly upwardly inclined so that when the latter is on theties the lower side of the base plate will be horizontal, and the upperside thereof will be slightl inclined to slightly tilt or incline therai s inwardly and the more effectually hold them against any tendencyto spread.

Having thus described theinvention,what is claimed as new, is

1. The combination with rail ends, of a base plate having a braceextending u wardly therefrom at one side of the rail en s, said bracebeing hollowed on its upper side to resent oppositely inclined facesextending rom its ends to its center and form a recess under the railheads dee ening toward the center of such brace, suc base plate beingfurther provided on its upper side with a corresponding hollow forming arecess under the bases of the rails deepening toward the center of suchbase plate, and further provided with a back stop on the side oppositethe brace, and a presser block fitted between such back stop and theopposing sides of the rail ends.

2. The combination with rail ends, of a base plate having a brace on oneside to bear against one side of the rails, a back stop flange on the .0posite side bearing against the opposite si e of the base flanges of therails and having an inclined inner face converging downwardly to suchbase flange, said back stop being further provided in its upper.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.I WILLIS D. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

FRANK WILLIAMS, W. M. CLARK.

